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Whale, snoek or halibut-to the British housewife, harassed by years of austerity, it was all of a piece. London's Time & Tide reported the case of one shopper who got her butcher's attention at long last and said prettily: "Two nice whale steaks, and please, could I have the head...
...created its own legends. A puzzle still unsolved by the Ministry of Health: the case of the dentist who pulled two of his own teeth, and sent in a claim for payment to himself. Last week* a butcher in Dudley, Worcestershire, asked for three pairs of eyeglasses: one for reading, one for looking at far-off things, one for chopping meat. He got them. In Cambridge, an elderly woman, bald since the age of six, asked for a wig. Ruled S. W. Davis, the pensions officer: "She will be provided with two wigs, as one occasionally has to be cleaned...
...Butcher Knife. Then the presidential train began a station-to-station run to Buffalo. Seven thousand people stayed through a violent cloudburst at Auburn, Republican Congressman John Taber's home town. They cheered lustily as Harry Truman berated Taber for using "a butcher knife and a saber and a meat ax . . . on every forward-looking program . . ." There were more crowds at Schenectady, Amsterdam, Little Falls, Utica, Rome, Oneida, Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Geneva, Rochester, and Buffalo. And there would be great crowds again this week as the President toured the Middle West. Politicos and columnists seemed puzzled by the phenomenon...
Inflation. In Los Angeles, Butcher Edward Renert pleaded guilty to upping the weight of a roast 3¼ ounces by aiming the breeze of an electric fan at his meat scale...
...University of Chicago philosopher, Professor Mortimer J. Adler -"the cultural center of the. West." To spread the tidings, persuasive Lynn Williams persuaded Chicago's Mayor Martin H. Kennelly to proclaim a Great Books Week. Kennelly agreed: "I think Chicago should be known as something besides the 'hog butcher for the world...